Essential Excel Formulas and Functions – Peterborough

Description

Functions are at the core of Microsoft Excel and provide much of its power. However, many users find working with functions and formulas confusing and frustrating. This Excel training course focuses on the creation of formulas using the most useful and essential functions in each of Excel’s main function categories. Delegates will also be shown the various types of formulas and the different methods of creating them, the different ways of inserting functions and using nested functions to build complex formulas. This Excel course also covers the auditing of formulas and and the handling of errors.

Lookup functions

Date and time functions

How Excel handles dates and times, Construction dates with the DATE() function, Extracting date elements with DAY(), MONTH(), and YEAR() , Isolating the day, month and year , Determining the day of the week, Calculating the tme between two dates using DATEDIF(), Calculating elapsed time , Creating time sheets

Maths functions

ROUND() and MROUND() , ROUNDDOWN() and ROUNDUP() , CEILING() and FLOOR() , EVEN() and ODD() , INT() and TRUNC() , Using RANDBETWEEN() to generate data, Using RANDBETWEEN() to generate date and time values

Database functions

How database functions work, Defining the Excel database, Defining the criteria area, Using AND and OR with your criteria, The DSUM() function, The DAVERAGE() function, The DCOUNT() function, DMIN() and DMAX(), The DGET() function